@maestrapublica.bsky.social
I'm a Special Education teacher at the elementary level. In prior work life, I worked in mental health (20 years). I am passionate about social justice and free and well-funded public schools. Preservation of wild places, climate change, photography too
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America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth.
The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%.
Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.
The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%.
Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.
December 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth.
The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%.
Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.
The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%.
Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.
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Our government’s priorities are entirely backward. And purposefully so.
December 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Our government’s priorities are entirely backward. And purposefully so.
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DOJ: Nothing suggests Donald Trump is a sexual predator.
ME (thinking): How could an adjudicated rapist, accused of sexual assault by dozens of women, who paid hush money to a porn star, who cheated on all his wives, and comes up 100s of times in The Epstein Files, possibly be a sexual predator?
ME (thinking): How could an adjudicated rapist, accused of sexual assault by dozens of women, who paid hush money to a porn star, who cheated on all his wives, and comes up 100s of times in The Epstein Files, possibly be a sexual predator?
December 24, 2025 at 6:29 AM
DOJ: Nothing suggests Donald Trump is a sexual predator.
ME (thinking): How could an adjudicated rapist, accused of sexual assault by dozens of women, who paid hush money to a porn star, who cheated on all his wives, and comes up 100s of times in The Epstein Files, possibly be a sexual predator?
ME (thinking): How could an adjudicated rapist, accused of sexual assault by dozens of women, who paid hush money to a porn star, who cheated on all his wives, and comes up 100s of times in The Epstein Files, possibly be a sexual predator?
He's just ranting, thank God.
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 AM
He's just ranting, thank God.
So, I thought we didn't need pennies anymore. See at CVS drive through, Houston area.
December 17, 2025 at 10:02 PM
So, I thought we didn't need pennies anymore. See at CVS drive through, Houston area.
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That’s good trouble!
This is how every elected official in America should be leading by example. This is the courage we need. If you care about our constitutional rights, then show up for us. Otherwise, step aside and let leaders lead. Let’s go. #Courage2025
October 4, 2025 at 8:27 PM
That’s good trouble!
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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
October 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
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Andor would want you to cancel your Disney+ subscription.
It's the least you can do for the Rebellion.
It's the least you can do for the Rebellion.
September 20, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Andor would want you to cancel your Disney+ subscription.
It's the least you can do for the Rebellion.
It's the least you can do for the Rebellion.
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Novelist James Baldwin (1914-87)
"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain."
"People pay for what they do...very simply; by the lives they lead."
#booksky
#writingcommunity
#authors
"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain."
"People pay for what they do...very simply; by the lives they lead."
#booksky
#writingcommunity
#authors
August 2, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Novelist James Baldwin (1914-87)
"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain."
"People pay for what they do...very simply; by the lives they lead."
#booksky
#writingcommunity
#authors
"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain."
"People pay for what they do...very simply; by the lives they lead."
#booksky
#writingcommunity
#authors
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That Kamala interview was heart breaking because it's one of the few times that I've ever seen a national political figure say the system is broken and that trying to work within it to change things probably wont work.
August 1, 2025 at 3:31 PM
That Kamala interview was heart breaking because it's one of the few times that I've ever seen a national political figure say the system is broken and that trying to work within it to change things probably wont work.
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I stay off political news 1 day and now T wants to tear down the East Wing? Oh, hell no.
August 1, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I stay off political news 1 day and now T wants to tear down the East Wing? Oh, hell no.
This is what Israel is doing to other human beings. There is no doubt in my mind that this and has been genocide and our government has been complacent.
Past ‘The Point Of No Return’: Doctor Gives On-The-Ground Insight Into Starvation In Gaza
www.huffpost.com/entry/gaza-s...
Past ‘The Point Of No Return’: Doctor Gives On-The-Ground Insight Into Starvation In Gaza
www.huffpost.com/entry/gaza-s...
Past ‘The Point Of No Return’: Doctor Describes How Starvation In Gaza Is Driving Mass Death
"In August and September, there are probably still going to be ... large numbers of deaths because children have already passed the tipping point," Mark Brauner, who volunteered in Gaza last month, to...
www.huffpost.com
July 29, 2025 at 4:27 AM
This is what Israel is doing to other human beings. There is no doubt in my mind that this and has been genocide and our government has been complacent.
Past ‘The Point Of No Return’: Doctor Gives On-The-Ground Insight Into Starvation In Gaza
www.huffpost.com/entry/gaza-s...
Past ‘The Point Of No Return’: Doctor Gives On-The-Ground Insight Into Starvation In Gaza
www.huffpost.com/entry/gaza-s...
This is wrong.
Absolutely shameful.
Afghans promised a home in U.S. may face repatriation — and the Taliban
Afghans who helped American forces are stuck in limbo as the Trump administration cuts the State Department office for Afghan relocation.
We're talking upwards of 250k Afghans here.
Afghans promised a home in U.S. may face repatriation — and the Taliban
Afghans who helped American forces are stuck in limbo as the Trump administration cuts the State Department office for Afghan relocation.
We're talking upwards of 250k Afghans here.
Afghans promised a home in U.S. may face repatriation — and the Taliban
Afghans who helped American forces are stuck in limbo as the Trump administration cuts the State Department office for Afghan relocation.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 23, 2025 at 2:35 AM
This is wrong.
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If George Takei living to see this atrocity again doesn't break your heart, you don't have one.
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
July 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
If George Takei living to see this atrocity again doesn't break your heart, you don't have one.
Youman Wilder is an everyman hero. The kind that rises from his basic decency and does what he can, no more, no less. He was Superman to those families. Thank you, sir, for demonstrating that each of us can be like you in our own way when the opportunity presents itself.
When ICE agents questioned a group of 11- to 14-year-olds who’d just finished batting practice, their coach, Youman Wilder, stepped in. “I’m willing to die to make sure these kids can get home,” he recounted afterward.
ICE Agents Invade a Manhattan Little League Field
Youman Wilder has coached local kids for twenty-one years—including four who have gone pro. When masked agents tried to interrogate his players, he told them, “You don’t have more rights than they do....
www.newyorker.com
July 22, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Youman Wilder is an everyman hero. The kind that rises from his basic decency and does what he can, no more, no less. He was Superman to those families. Thank you, sir, for demonstrating that each of us can be like you in our own way when the opportunity presents itself.
This is inhuman treatment of human beings! Every human (and a lot of sentient animals for that matter) deserve to be treated with respect and dignity. This treatment must stop.
This makes me angry and sick to my stomach.
Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates “like dogs”, per a report from Human Rights Watch
July 22, 2025 at 7:52 AM
This is inhuman treatment of human beings! Every human (and a lot of sentient animals for that matter) deserve to be treated with respect and dignity. This treatment must stop.
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Stop falling for the trap of latching on to the price of an item (eggs, beef…) as the message. The issue is affordability. From 2001-2023 wages failed to keep up with rising costs. Medical premiums rose 301% Travel expenses were up 170%. Rent grew by 131%. The cost of raising children grew by 107%.
July 22, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Stop falling for the trap of latching on to the price of an item (eggs, beef…) as the message. The issue is affordability. From 2001-2023 wages failed to keep up with rising costs. Medical premiums rose 301% Travel expenses were up 170%. Rent grew by 131%. The cost of raising children grew by 107%.